We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime discovers truth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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